Geez, Godfrey lighten up.
On 8/8/2011 2:33 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
I don't use the acronym EVIL as it has negative connotations. Cute
though the irrepressible Luddites who prefer SLR cameras might be
about it, I don't like negative connotations applied to equipment
categories.
MILC and MILF are easily misconstrued and similarly subject to some
rather rude jokes. More negatives
The transposition of EVIL to LIVE (Lens Interchangable-Viewfinder
Electronic) is positive and describes precisely the camera type,
excluding types such as SLR and RF digital cameras. It also is a term
used in electronic display information displays such as LIVE
Histogram, etc.
But who the hell ever bothers actually listening to reasoned and
sensible naming like this? Instead we have people calling anything
that doesn't have a reflex viewfinder system a "rangefinder", people
calling a sophisticated camera like Konica-Minolta A2 a "point and
shoot", and all kinds of other such twaddle.
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Steven Desjardins<drd1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Not quite. Some naive folks have changed MILC (Mirrorless
Interchangeable Lens Camera) to MILF (Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens
Format). No amount of references to Google seem to deter them.
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 1:20 PM, P. J. Alling<webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote:
The best acronym ever. Electronic Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens.
On 8/8/2011 12:46 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 4:08 AM, Boris Liberman<bori...@gmail.com> wrote:
A co-worker of mine, after lots of consultations and deliberations
finally
got herself Panasonic G3 with standard kit lens (14-42/3.5-5.6). Few days
ago I had honors of playing with it. I am pretty much overwhelmed with
surprise... Took me close to no time to figure this one out. AF works
wonderfully, electronic viewfinder is convenient, the ergonomics are
good,
the build it solid - this thing is pretty darn excellent.
Glad you liked it. I played with a G3 for the first time just the
other day. It's a very interesting development from my G1 ... smaller
in the hand, tighter feeling, etc. Kind of a melding of the GF1 and G1
models in my experience. I expect it is a very good camera, and now
there is a very nice range of native Micro-FourThirds prime lenses to
work with it (12/2, 14/2.5, 18/2.8, 20/1.7, 25/1.4, 45/2.8 Macro, and
45/1.8) and a good range of zooms from both Olympus and Panasonic,
never mind its ability to use nearly any other lens via adaptation.
The interchangeable lens, all electronic digital camera age is upon
us. I know no one agrees on what to call this new camera category with
half a dozen acronyms like EVIL, MILC, etc, but I call it "Lens
Interchangeable - Viewfinder Electronic" or LIVE.
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